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He took part in several noble English weddings last year, and he offers his advice in our consultation to-day." "But where is Cornelia? I thought she would come with you." "She will be here in a few minutes. I saw her half-an-hour ago." "What a beautiful girl she has become!" said madame. "She is an angel," said Hyde. Angelica laughed.
At first it was proposed that the two weddings should take place on the same day, but, afterwards, it was decided otherwise. It would be inconvenient for business reasons, should both the partners be away at the same time, and in those circumstances the wedding trip would be shortened.
But Sir James knew that strikes are sacred things, far more sacred than weddings. He hastened to agree with the engine driver. "I know you can't go on," he said, "nothing would induce me to ask you such a thing. But perhaps " The woman at the washtub did not reverence strikes or understand the labour movement. She spoke abruptly.
That stern old gentleman ordered his daughters into the house, and then kept them in stricter confinement than ever. But love laughs at locksmiths, and the amorous officers eventually carried the place by storm, and beat down all parental resistance. Three weddings followed on the same day, and all ended for a time as in a fairy tale.
Here she had received the pledges, and the plight, and honour; and here her light head led her on to look for something faithful. "When the tide turns I shall know it. If he does not come by that time, there will be no more to do. It will be too late for weddings, for the tide turns at twelve o'clock. How calm and peaceful is the sea! How happy are the sea gulls, and how true to one another!"
Aye! my good friend, those were the days! It is to them that that little spell belongs which you saw me putting into practice to-night at the Town-house Tower." "I don't quite understand you, Herr Professor, Tussmann said. "Well," said the goldsmith, "there used to be splendid weddings in those old days in the Town-hall very different affairs from the weddings nowadays.
If we have given with some particularity the orthodox proceedings of a fashionable wedding, it must again be remembered that not all weddings were fashionable, and that one or other of these details might be omitted as taste or circumstances required. Among the poorer folk there must often have been practically no ceremony at all beyond the "bringing home."
I thought weddings were nice funny things. I never supposed they made people feel badly. I sha'n't ever let Mabel get married, I think. But she'll have to stay a little girl always in that case, for I certainly won't have her an old maid." "What do you know about old maids, midget?" asked Clover. "Why, Miss Clover, I have seen lots of them.
Of course, there's going to be two weddings in the family, and I don't suppose Patty will ever buy another handsome gown at her time of life. Abner brought her home that elegant crape shawl, with the fringe and netting nearly half a yard deep. Maybe 'twas a present, she let it go that way." "Of course, there's money enough among the Conants," Eunice commented gently.
The bride should be very attentive and conciliatory to all her husband's friends, They will look with interest upon her from the moment they hear of the engagement, and it is in the worst taste for her to show indifference to them. Quiet weddings, either in church or at the house, are very much preferred by some families.
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